I actually went through that page aswell and managed to figure out all of the problems by tidying up my code and variables. Thanks for the pointer.
Feel bad for you though Simon. It sucks when you don't get to program full time in the language of your choice. I'm having to write web apps in C# for my day job :( All the best, Andy. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Klausner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: mod_perl caching/delay > > >> Hi! >> >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:34:39PM -0000, Simon McCaughey wrote: >> >> > This sounds to me like the kinds of problem we had migrating to > mod_perl. It >> > sounds like a global variable problem, we had the same kind of >> > issues - > 90% >> > of the time the app seemed to be behaving, but it really wasn't. We > ended up >> > refactoring a little code to remove all globals, and that fixed it. >> > >> >> You might want to read >> http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html >> especially "Sometimes it Works, Sometimes it Doesn't" >> > > We did! - that's how we figured out what was going on. it works 100% > now. However that was just a 6 week prototype development, the mod_perl > was just an extra boost of speed - just because we could! > > <rant> > > 8 months later and we are still "re-designing" it in a "production" > environment using java. > - Prototype - perl, 2 developers, 6 weeks, ~90% functionality, 40k > lines > of code, full design docs > - Real product - java, 8 developers, 8 months, 0% functionality, 0 > lines of > code, some design docs > > Personally I would use perl, but the management don't think its good > enough. > > </rant> > > Simon. > > > > > > -- > Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ > Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html -- Luibh.com E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.luibh.com Web Hosting and Development. -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
